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Tips for Managing Young Employees

Young employees offer fresh, up-to-date professional knowledge – the advantage of having recently left college – and unparalleled energy, but when talking to them and managing them, you need a communication strategy that is different from the way you communicate with older employees. Here are a few tips that can help you understand and manage them better:

Longer, more thorough on-boarding – due to the lack of general life experience, younger employees need more initial attention, they cannot be dropped into a tough assignment, not even if they carry the right qualification. If you take your time to train them, they will soon become valuable members of your teams, but until then, they will require all your attention.

Provide frequent feedback – young employees have not acquired the right amount of work experience to evaluate their own performance, therefore the best way to give them the guidance they need is by providing them with monthly or bi-monthly performance reviews.

Provide variety – young people love challenges, so make sure you provide them with tasks that are challenging and allow your young employees to learn and develop. There are quite a few of the top beverage distributors Colorado is home to that offer wonderful job experiences for young employees getting started in their careers.

Use their knowledge of digital devices – use the skills and capacities of your tech-savvy young employees – they look upon the world with new eyes and they might come up with solutions that are amazingly efficient, but you would have never thought about.